As a sports reporter for the Gainesville Sun and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Hollis got his share of feedback from readers, especially when he covered pro games or college championships. But nothing quite prepared the Fredericksburg native for the wave of responses—more than 1,000 calls and letters in some instances – when he wrote about professional wrestling as a metro reporter for the Journal-Constitution.
Students at the University of Virginia are showing some sixth graders what it's like to be a college student. In this week's Stephanie's Heroes, CBS19's Stephanie Satchell is featuring the volunteers in the Phi Sigma Pi Honor Fraternity for their work with UVa's Day in the Life Program.
David Evans believes drastic change would probably be the best way to solve problems with the federal government’s health insurance website. “Probably the right solution would be to scrap what has been done so far and start from scratch,” said Evans, a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia. “But it’s difficult to throw away hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of work. … It’s hard for the federal government to operate like a startup company.”
Renowned Civil War historian Gary Gallagher speaks highly of the record that Gray and her ancestors have left to posterity. “The Knox family letters are a splendid addition to the body of published firsthand accounts from the Civil War,” said Gallagher, author of “The Confederate War” and “The Union War,” among many works, and the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at The University of Virginia. “Unusually rich in content, they combine testimony from the home front and the battlefield. Through the eyes of these men and w...
Conventional wisdom is that after previous conflicts the U.S. has cut defense spending too much. As President Obama said in 2012: “We can’t afford to repeat the mistakes that have been made in the past – after World War II, after Vietnam – when our military policy was left ill prepared for the future.” In the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia historian Melvyn Leffler, a Cold War specialist, would beg to differ.
Berger's office also pointed to a new study by researchers from Stanford and the University of Virginia into performance incentives work introduced in the Washington, D.C., schools in 2009-10. "The evidence available to date has been mixed at best" as to whether performance pay works, Profs. Thomas Dee and James Wykoff wrote. But the researchers said poorly performing teachers left Washington classrooms in greater numbers under threat of dismissal, while teachers who stayed showed improved performance.
(Commentary) Despite intense public attention from the oil and gas industry on the George Washington, the actual reserves of natural gas under the forest are largely undetermined. As Thomas Biggs, a professor at the University of Virginia, put it, “There’s no real way to tell from the surface. You do your homework the best you can, but they have drilled many, many a dry hole.”
Previous studies suggested women of different races and ethnicities may have different motivations for sleeping with their babies, said Dr Fern Hauck, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. Some women bed-share because their parents bed-shared or because they believe it’s the safest thing for their baby, she said. Others believe it will help them breast-feed.
(By Mary Margaret Frank, a director for the University of Virginia’s Darden School’s Institute of Business, and Allison Elias, a research associate for the institute) The big idea: Partnerships between sectors of the economy generate innovation through collaboration that leads to a more sustainable reduction in needless childhood deaths from preventable disease.
“Mini-moons are consistent with the spirit of economic sobriety that has come over many young adults today,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “Given high levels of unemployment and underemployment, and greater fears about their economic future, many young adults may well be cautious about dropping a lot of money on a big honeymoon.”
Hoping to squash speculation that his head football coach is on the hot seat, Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage said in an interview Thursday that Mike London will return next year, regardless of how the rest of this season plays out.
The University of Virginia Women’s Center has received a $3 million donation from alumna Maxine Platzer Lynn. The gift is the largest in the center’s 25-year history.
With the goal reached, Brian O’Connor, Move2Health chairman and University of Virginia head baseball coach, challenged participants to triple the goal by the time the campaign ends Dec. 31.
One of Charlottesville's biggest 5K races raised more than $100,000 to help wounded veterans. The University of Virginia Foundation presented a check for $107,000 to representatives from the Wounded Warrior Project Friday.
A new HRT pill that could prevent breast cancer has been hailed as a breakthrough with the potential to help millions of women. Scientists said the treatment was “the great hope” for women around the world, because current drugs taken by those approaching the menopause have been repeatedly linked with a higher risk of the disease. Prof Richard Santen, from the University of Virginia, was part of the team that developed the drug. He said: “If this does what we think it does, this is huge.”
It took researcher Larry Sabato about five years to build his case against a 34-year-old conclusion that President John Kennedy died as part of some unspecified conspiracy.
“People are going to have to make decisions really quickly here now,” said Kyle Kondik, a congressional commentator at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Abortion rights supporters have said the legislation could outlaw abortion, but University of Virginia constitutional law professor Kevin Walsh said that can’t happen as long as the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision affirming the constitutional right to an abortion remains intact. “Federal constitutional rights always trump your state law,” he said. “This would have more symbolic effect than practical effect, but that doesn’t make it irrelevant for either side.”
One example is a recent University of Virginia study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans (fMRIs), if found that we experience people who we become close to as though they are our own selves. “It’s essentially a breakdown of self and other; our self comes to include the people we become close to,” said lead researcher James Coan.
A team of University of Virginia students taking part in a global genetic engineering competition is working with Charlottesville high school students to develop a class.